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Mission Workshop coming to Valencia

October 1st, 2014

Mission Workshop
 

Local backpack and messenger bag company Mission Workshop appears to be moving to the old Therapy Furniture spot on Valencia at 16th. But here’s the interesting thing: their old store on Rondel is right behind the Valencia location.

Here’s a map (original) that I’ve colored for you. Mission Workshop’s new location is in orange, the existing one’s in green:
 

Map of the two storefronts sharing a common wall
 

So the old and new locations share a common wall. If they wanted to — and I should stress that no building permits have been filed as of today — they could bust out some axes and make one huge store. It’d be like a hipster version of Jack Nicholson in The Shining:
 

Hipster Shining

“Here’s, uh… John Oliver?”
 

In the end, I can’t really bring myself to say anything too snarky about this particular change on Valencia. It feels like a step sideways; Therapy’s furniture was well made but pricey. Same caveat for Mission Workshop’s bags. At least we can emit a collective sigh of relief that it’s not another overhyped, overpriced eatery.

 
UPDATE: Mission Workshop sent me an email confirming that All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy the new Valencia storefront indeed is connected to the original Rondel location via a shared wall. Of course if you’ve been to the store (it opened recently) you already knew this.

Here’s Johnny!

February 4th, 2010

Someone pulled a Jack Nicholson on this poor door, then left it on a bunch of mailboxes at 16th and Guerrero.

Here's Johnny!

Here's Johnny 2

At least the mailboxes are happy about it.